PNPYO rejects NaRRA Bill, urges stronger oversight
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PNPYO rejects NaRRA Bill, urges stronger oversight
April 25 05:43 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party Youth Organization (PNPYO) is rejecting the proposed National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority ...
Trump cancels envoys’ trip to Iran talks in Pakistan
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Trump cancels envoys’ trip to Iran talks in Pakistan
April 25 04:56 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had ordered his envoys not to travel to Pakistan for peace ...
Caribbean hits 95 per cent childhood vaccination target
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Caribbean hits 95 per cent childhood vaccination target
April 25 04:48 PM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Childhood vaccination coverage across the Caribbean has reached the 95 per cent regional target, rising from 92 per cent in...
US allows Venezuela to pay for Maduro legal team
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US allows Venezuela to pay for Maduro legal team
April 25 04:41 PM
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The United States (US) will allow Venezuela to pay for Nicolas Maduro's legal defence, a court filing showed, lifting ...

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Acting police commissioner appeals to public
Karyl Walker 
November 8, 2009
Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington, in his first public address since taking over the reins of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), urged m...
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Gully-Gaza feud hurting
BY INGRID BROWN Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 8, 2009
The sexually explicit and violent lyrics for which deejay Vybz Kartel - one half of the Gully-Gaza feud - is known affect how Jamaican teenagers think...
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National Journalism Week opens Nov 29
November 8, 2009
National Journalism Week, the top calendar event for local journalists, will be observed from November 29 to December 5, 2009, the Press Association o...
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St Mary Central needs training and employment opportunities
BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer senior staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 7, 2009
IT is only mid-morning but already Donald Williams is sweating profusely and it has nothing to do with the sun peeping through the clouds hanging over...
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Money small but PATH a means of survival
BY NADINE WILSON Sunday Observer staff reporter wilsonn@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 7, 2009
STANDING in a long line in the boiling sun in full view of passers-by once every two months to collect a cheque valued between $1,300 and about $7,000...
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Adams wants to be top cop
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 7, 2009
COLOURFUL retired senior superintendent of police Reneto Adams has confirmed he plans to apply for the job of police commissioner to succeed Rear Admi...
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We are Jamaicans… Not PNP or JLP
November 7, 2009
WHETHER you voted or not, your member of parliament is there to serve you. Once you live in the constituency, the MP is your political representative ...
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Guy spends $3 million of CDF on education
INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 7, 2009
MEMBER of Parliament for St Mary Central Dr Morais Guy says he is committed to advancing education in his constituency and as such, the development of...
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Sandals Resorts voted best Caribbean vacation destination… again
ALESIA EDWARDS Observer staff reporter edwardsa@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 6, 2009
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Sandals Resorts International, for the 10th consecutive year, was again voted the best Caribbean vacation destination by Canadian ...
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The ‘G culture’ destroying school, says principal
BY KARYL WALKER Crime/Court Desk co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 6, 2009
PRINCIPAL of the Edith Dalton James High School, Ray Howell, has lashed out against the sale of badges to students bearing violent images, and said th...
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Tufton’s vision for Hounslow
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
November 6, 2009
SANTA Cruz, St Elizabeth - He admits he doesn't have "a dime yet" to finance his vision, but Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he is det...
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Gang leader executed in China
AP 
November 6, 2009
BEIJING, China (AP) - A former gang leader who was the son of a high-ranking politician was executed this week in northern China after being convicted...
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Guns, gangs plague schools
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 5, 2009
POLICE seized 15 guns and arrested 69 students for criminal offences at public schools throughout Jamaica during the 2007/08 academic year, according ...
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Schools say lewd, sexually explicit music distracting students
By DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 5, 2009
LEWD, sexually explicit music and early exposure to pornography can have a lasting negative impact on children, psycopathalogist with Children First C...
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‘Bungles’ to know fate Nov 18
Paul Henry 
November 5, 2009
SUPERINTENDENT Harry 'Bungles' Daley is to know, in another two weeks, whether he will face imprisonment or be acquitted of a count of corruption in t...
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Britain lawmakers face new allowance rules
AP 
November 4, 2009
LONDON, England (AP) - Drain the moat, tear down the duck house, fire the housekeeper. British lawmakers face strict new allowance rules following a s...
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JNHT employees honoured for long service
BY KIMONE THOMPSON ?Features editor ? Sunday ?thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 4, 2009
WHEN Frank Gayle first walked through the doors of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) to take up a job as labourer, he was 21 years old. Now 3...
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Once controversial fertiliser gets local distributor
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 4, 2009
DIAMOND R, the organic fertiliser that was at the centre of controversy earlier this year is now being distributed locally by Hi-Pro, the agriculture ...
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Cops seize badges promoting violence
BY KARYL WALKER Crime/Court Desk co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 4, 2009
THE St Andrew South Police yesterday removed vendors who sell in front of schools in the Duhaney Park area of Kingston, after confiscating badges depi...

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